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South Asian Therapist Collective

Many South Asians struggle with mental health, and those who try to work through it using therapy additionally struggle to find culturally competent care. Seeing this, a few therapists within ASATA's membership, Farhana Sobhan and Ishita Pohoja, worked to start a therapy collective in hopes of addressing this need. The below is a quote from Farhana:

This directory was created with the intention of connecting South Asian therapists to South Asian clients. When I was looking for a therapist, I wanted to work with someone who understood some of my nuanced cultural experiences. Someone to whom I would not have to explain my collective understanding of relationships. Someone with whom I didn't have to take time educating about my culture and how it impacts me. This directory was formed from the work of South Asian Therapist Collective (SATC) who formed during the lockdown of Covid-19. The collective has coalesced in order to examine the nuances of working with South Asian themes via consultation, to be in community with one another to lessen isolation, and to decolonize therapy through dialogue and being in community with one another. As a collective, we want to continue to create more visibility for South Asian therapists to link South Asian individuals to culturally informed care. And for us, as therapists to be in relationship to one another that tends to be isolative due to the nature of mental health work.  

AND WE’RE BACK TO HIS  NUN FUCKERY

it echoes to Noelle oh no

ASATA Denounces Unabridged Birth Certificate Regs

JOHANNESBURG, 25 September 2018 – The Association of Southern African Travel Agents (ASATA) is disappointed and frustrated that South African minors will still be required to present Unabridged Birth Certificates when travelling.

The announcement was made by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba this morning during a press conference following last week’s Stimulus Package announcement by President…